Acts 5:28

παραγγελίᾳ παρηγγείλαμεν : for the Hebraism cf. Acts 4:17, “we straitly,” etc., R.V. (and A.V.), expressing intensity “commanding, we commanded you,” Wycliffe. The T.R. makes the clause a question, commencing with οὐ, but the evidence is too strong against it, evidently it was occasioned by the ἐπηρώτησεν, but St. Chrysostom adopts it, see Hom., xiii., 1. Bengel remarks on παραγγελίᾳ, “pudet dicere minando, Acts 4:17, nam non poterant punire” But St. Chrysostom rightly notes that they ought to have asked πῶς ἐξήλθετε, i.e., from the prison, but they ask as if nothing had happened. ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ, Acts 4:17, here as there the Council do not mention the name of Jesus, perhaps because they disdained it; in sharp contrast stands not only St. Peter's mention of the name, but his glorying in it, Acts 5:30-31. τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ : fem. here and elsewhere, cf. Galatians 4:25; Revelation 3:12, so in Matthew 2:3, Blass, Grammatik des N. G., p. 32; Winer-Schmiedel, p. 153. διδαχῆς, “teaching,” R.V., cf. Matthew 7:28. βούλεσθε : the charge was untrue the wish was their own, not that of the Apostles, cf. Matthew 27:25. St. Peter's earnest desire was that they should be saved. ἐπαγαγεῖν, Acts 18:6; Acts 22:20, and 2 Samuel 1:16, cf. 2Pe 2:1; 2 Peter 2:5; nowhere else in N.T. ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς : to bring His blood upon us, i.e., the vengeance of the people for His murder, αἷμα pro φόνον, Hebraistic no thought of divine punishment from their point of view; cf. LXX. Genesis 20:9; Exodus 32:34; Judges 9:24, and cf. Joshua 23:15 (in N.T., Matthew 23:35; Revelation 18:24).